Realtor.com Careers
Senior Data Scientist, Search & NLP
Austin, Texas, United States · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 4 hours ago
PythonAlgorithmsSQLSnowflakescikit-learnAirflowdbtData EngineeringData ScienceData VisualizationNLPLLMsAgentic AIStatisticsA/B TestingLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- You'll apply NLP and LLM-based techniques to a proprietary corpus of millions of real consumer search interactions-extracting signals like buyer vs. seller intent and conversational patterns to improve how our models rank and personalize results.
- You'll also prototype data products that turn those signals into features product and engineering can ship.
- This is an AI-native role: LLM evaluation tooling and AI-assisted workflows are core to how you'll work, not afterthoughts.
Responsibilities
- Prototype data products that leverage conversational query data and behavioral signals to drive personalized search experiences, translating NLP insights into actionable features for product and engineering teams.
- Design tests for search model changes
- Partner with search product and engineering leadership to define success metrics, shape the analytics roadmap for search, and present findings to senior leadership.
Requirements
- Strong Python skills and proficiency with NLP libraries (Hugging Face, spaCy, scikit-learn, or similar).
- Experience analyzing conversational and LLM-generated data using observability or evaluation tooling (e.g., Langfuse, Braintrust, or similar platforms for tracing, scoring, and evaluating AI outputs).
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Linguistics, Information Science, or a related field.
Nice to have
- Experience with search ranking analytics, query log analysis, or information retrieval measurement.
- Hands-on experience with LLM APIs (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, or similar) and prompt engineering for evaluation, scoring, or analytical tasks.
- Experience working with LLM observability platforms (Langfuse, Braintrust, or similar) to instrument, trace, and evaluate AI product performance at scale.
- Prior work in consumer-facing search products or two-sided marketplace analytics.
- Experience with Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouses.
- Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, NLP, or a related field.
- We balance creativity and innovation on a foundation of in-person collaboration.
- How We Reward You:
Skills
- The company is recognized by vendors as a top-tier leader in AI adoption.
- Recognized as the No.
Benefits
- Inclusive and Competitive medical, Rx, dental, and vision coverage
- Family forming benefits
- Flexible Time Off
- 8 hours of paid Volunteer Time off
- Tuition Reimbursement program for degreed and non-degreed programs
- Student Debt Retirement Savings Match program
- Realtor.com is committed to investing in the health and wellbeing of our employees and their families.
Company info
- If you care about data quality and maturity, this team champions it at scale.
- You will have the resources and organizational buy-in to improve tracking, build scalable ETL pipelines, and establish data integrity across the entire company.
- Industry-Leading AI and Modern Tech Stack: The company is recognized by vendors as a top-tier leader in AI adoption.
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